The Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival takes place on June 17th -18th during National Black Music Month and near the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop Music (August 11, 2023). As curators of the Hollywood Bowl’s Pre-show, we will produce an experience illuminating the intertwiningly rich relationship between Jazz and Hip-Hop music.
Historically, Jazz and Hip-Hop music share the same cultural lineage in the music culture. Jazz emerged out of many different types of black music such as slave songs, ragtime, and the blues. Much like jazz, Hip-Hop - which originated in the Bronx during the 1970s, was a raw and energetic art form that became the voice of a generation of disenfranchised African American youth.
During the 1990s Jazz and Hip-Hop meshed well together culturally and musically and to celebrate this fusion, our vision for this year’s Jazz Village Experience at the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival will highlight the history and relationship of these two music genres with special vendors, exhibitions, live art, and art/photography displays as follows:
VENDORS
Mike Norice
Website: www.MikeNorice.com
Instagram: @mikenorice
Medium: Portrait paintings, landscapes, fine art paintings, murals, and oil paintings
Ramsess
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Medium: Multi-disciplinary artist based in Leimert Park whose portrait work in textile/ Afro-centric quilts glass, mosaic and pen honor prominent Black figures throughout history.
California Jazz and Blues Museum
Website: www.TBMPAC.com
Instagram: @TBMPAC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barbaramorrisonpac/
Twitter: @THE_BMPAC
Specialty: Collection of Various African American Artists,
Monochrome photography and special artifacts.
Kenneth Gatewood
Instagram: @Kenneth Gatewood
Facebook: Kenneth Gatewood
YouTube: Kenneth Gatewood@utube
Medium: Fine Art Watercolors, Limited Edition Prints, and Originals.
Mohammed
Website: https://mubarakart.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mohammed.mubarak.3762
Instagram: www.instagram.com/qmubarak06/?hl=en
Medium : Oil Portraits, Murals and Photography
Samuel Pace
Website: www.SamuelPlace.com
Facebook: www.Facebook/Sam Pace Art
https://art.metro.net/artist/sam-pace/
Medium : Acrylic on Canvas, wood, and collage, also use of discarded recyclable objects.
Christen Austin
Facebook: www.facebook.com/christen.austin
Instagram: @caustinart
Medium : Christen Austin is a fine artist who has worked with a variety of different media ranging from pen and ink to digital art and currently specializes in acrylic painting. Her body of work consists of commission work and personal pieces that capture the essence of African American culture within a beautifully modern and surreal aesthetic.
William A. Pitts
Website: www.WilliamAPitts.com
Instagram: @william.a.pitts
Medium: Digital Photography, text over images, Collage and printing on vintage paper
Peyton
Instagram: @PeytonTheArtist
Website: www.PeytonTheArtist.com
https://creatively.life/projects/1513c8bb-da60-4e9e-8915-d83960d9518f/album/43050cca-0c5d-4cb2-a4ef-1211b85eb3af
Medium : Uses the styles of realism, abstraction, and expressionism utilizing mediums such as gold pigment, foil, oil paint, and spray paint to enhance the characteristics and emotions of the subjects. The 23k gold foil and pigment used in all paintings is sourced from Venice, Italy.
Eric “Crea8” Walker
Instagram: @King_Cre8
Medium: Graffiti Artist, muralist, illustrator, graphic designer. As a Graffiti Artist, muralist, illustrator, graphic designer and art instructor from South Central, Los Angeles, Eric is heavily influenced by all elements of Hip-Hop.
